Unit 7

Competition –Pie chart drawing
The table shows the number of students in a class who achieved each grade.
Pass
38%
Merit
33%
Distinction
21%
Fail
8%
Student Grades
1. There are three parts in the description of a chart: introduction, body and conclusion.
- Introduction should describe what the chart is about, its dates and location, and say what overall trends you see.
Body should describe the most important trends, while all information is summarized to avoid unnecessary details. Notes how many distinctive features diagram has.
Important! You need to write about all the periods of time and all the subjects of graph. Remember, summarizing doesn’t mean through away information. The secret here is to select what’s important, organize it, compare and contrast.
Conclusion should sum up the global trends shown on the figure and compare them if possible.
2. Language use:
The language and structures are given in the book.
Other language items:
+ make up less than … percent,
+ the most + adj, the second most + adj,
+ … substantially/ somewhat/ slightly more + adj than …,
+ … is about twice as + adj + as …, … three times as + adj + as …
UNIT 7: WORLD POPULATION
D. WRITING
The graph shows the chief uses of the apple crop in the US. Overall, the bulk of the harvest is either eaten fresh or made into juice.
The biggest slice of the pie-chart is taken up by fresh fruit. About 60% of the crop is eaten fresh. This is three times as much as the next use, which us for juice. Less than 20% of apples in the US are turned into apple juice. A further 12% is canned, and a total of 5% is either frozen or dried. Other remaining uses, such as apple vinegar, account for just 5% of the crop.
It’s clear that although a small amount of apples are processed into frozen, dried or canned products, most of the crop is sold straight from the tree.

Juice
18%
Fresh Fruit
60%
Canned
12%
Other
5%
Dried
3%
Frozen
2%
Uses of Apples,
USA
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UNIT 7: WORLD POPULATION
D. WRITING
Sample writing
The pie chart shows the distribution of the world population by region. Overall, more than half of the world’s population lives in South and East Asia.
South Asia is the biggest region, making up 32% of the world population. The second largest area is East Asia with 26% less than South Asia. Europe ranks third with 15%. Coming next is Africa with 11%. Together, Latin America and North America have 14 % of the world population. Finally, Oceania is the least populated region with the smallest percentage of 2%.
As can be seen, the greatest concentration of the world’s population is in Asia, with Europe far behind.
Europe
15%
East Asia
26%
Africa
11%
Oceania
2%
Northern
America
6%
Latin
America
8%
South Asia
32%
The world population
HOMEWORK
Complete the passage and compare with your partner .